The RIEF network organizes a yearly doctoral meeting which offers the opportunity for a limited number of PhD candidates or young PhDs to present their papers to active senior researchers in the field. Previous meetings took place in prestigious Universities such as the European University Institute in Florence, Zürich, Paris 1, Bocconi, Nice, Kiel, Aix-Marseille or Barcelona.

This year, the RIEF is pleased to welcome Florin Bilbiie (Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Kalina Manova (University of Oxford and CEPR) as keynote speakers.

PhDs candidates and young PhDs (still on the job market) should submit their papers (exclusively in English) in electronic format (pdf) to: by March 20, 2017 at the latest. Papers are refereed and selected by RIEF board members (complete list can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/riefnetwork). Decisions will be notified by early May 2017. A prize of 500 euros will be awarded to the best paper presented. To be eligible, authors and co-authors should be Phd students at the time of papers’ submission.

Thanks to our sponsors, there will be no submission and participation fees. Participants will have to cover hotel and travel expenses – no travel award will be granted. Besides, the journal International Economics (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-economics/) will consider submissions of papers presented in the meeting, using a fast editorial process.

CONFERENCE VENUE: Cité Scientifique, Building SH2, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France
SCIENTIFIC MATTERS: Jérôme Héricourt (President of RIEF, jerome.hericourt@univ-lille1.fr)
ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS: Sophie de Salée (sophie.desalee@cepii.fr), Nathalie Hay (nathalie.hay@univ-lille1.fr)
LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Etienne Farvaque (etienne.farvaque@univ-lille1.fr), Remi Generoso (remi.generoso@univ-lille1.fr), Clément Nedoncelle (clement.nedoncelle@ed.univ-lille1.fr)
RIEF WEBSITE: http://sites.google.com/site/riefnetwork/

The financial support of the following institutions is gratefully acknowledged: